THE PURE AWARENESS OF ABSOLUTE ART
Ian Wilson
Published by Haubrok Foundation, Berlin, 2013, card, 15,5 × 11.5 cm, English
Price: €25 (Temporarily out of stock)

Ian Wilson has been exploring spoken language as an art form since 1968. He has described his own work as “oral communication” and later as “discussion”. At Wilson’s own request, his work is neither filmed nor recorded, thereby preserving the transient nature of the spoken word. On April 28, 2013 a discussion, based on the topic of The Absolute in Art, took place at the Haubrok Foundation, Berlin.

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THE PURE AWARENESS OF ABSOLUTE ART
Ian Wilson
Published by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2017, card, 15,5 × 11.5 cm, English
Price: €25 (Out of stock)

Ian Wilson has been exploring spoken language as an art form since 1968. He has described his own work as “oral communication” and later as “discussion”. At Wilson’s own request, his work is neither filmed nor recorded, thereby preserving the transient nature of the spoken word. A discussion, based on the topic of The Absolute in Art, took place in May 2017 atKW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and reassembled the artist, the director and current staff members of the institution.

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Bicentennial Proposal: The French War: The War of the Letter
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Published by Art Metropole, Toronto, 1989, poster (b/w ill.), 35.5 × 45.5 cm, English
Price: €5

A promotional poster published by Art Metropole for Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Bicentennial Proposal: The French War: The War of the Letter curated by Peter Day and was exhibited at Art Metropole between 23 September–21 October, 1989.

The sheet music depicted is composed by Peter Davidson entitled Two Flutes for St. Just. and subtitled Music for the opening of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Bicentenary Celebrations.

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I’M NOT A NICE GIRL!
Eleanor Antin, Lee Lozano, Adrian Piper, Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Published by Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2019, 32 cards in manila envelope (colour & b/w ill.), 19 × 13 cm, English / German
Price: €8 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition I’M NOT A NICE GIRL! Eleanor Antin, Lee Lozano, Adrian Piper, Mierle Laderman Ukeles at K21 Düsseldorf.

The point of departure for the exhibition is a series of documents that have rarely or never been shown before— letters, concepts, and photographs from the Archive Dorothee and Konrad Fischer which chronicle contacts between the internationally influential gallerist Konrad Fischer and Lucy R. Lippard, as well as women Conceptual artists from the late 1960s and early 1970s such as Eleanor Antin, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Adrian Piper, Lee Lozano, Charlotte Posenenske, and Alina Szapocznikow.

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Rose Moon
Fiona Abicare
Published by West Space, Melbourne, 2019, 12 pages (b/w ill.), 20 × 23.5 cm, English
Price: €3

Exhibition pamphlet produced on the occasion of Fiona Abicare’s exhibition Rose Moon at West Space, Melbourne, 2019.

Abicare works across sculpture and site to explore diverse material histories. Influenced broadly by modernism and its interaction with art, design, architecture, film and fashion, her work absorbs and reflects cultural histories, personal memories and other embedded associations. Rose Moon explores the origins of the interior design style Shabby Chic in relation to art history and feminine aesthetics. Taking shape as a series of site-specific sculptures, Rose Moon considers the practice of the female home decorator as sculptor, painter and craft practitioner.

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Who's Werner
Published by Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, 2019, card, 14.8 × 10.5 cm, Lithuanian
Price: €3

Invitation produced on the occasion of the first instalment of the exhibition Who’s Werner? at Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, 6 September–3 November, 2019. Who’s Werner? was a spacial conversation constructed by Yana Foqué that explores artistic practices that have become intertwined and focuses on the role of a figure whose work is commonly kept a public secret. It looks into some mutualistic relationships between artists in various disciplines and their assistants; producers; sometimes lovers.

Including the work for and by Céline Condorelli, Denise Scott Brown, Elle Burchill, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Raoul De Keyser, James Langdon, John Baldessari, Jonas Mekas, Lucy Skaer, Margot Sandeman, Norman Laich, Paul Robbrecht, Robert Venturi, Simon Harlow, Benjamin Roth, Laura Kaminskaitė.

Designed by Nerijus Rimkus.

More information on the exhibition can be found here.

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